5 Demands Raised by Staff Members of Immigration Department

1. Close down borders connecting China-Hong Kong immediately;

2. Recall all immigration staff members supporting the police force;

3. Immediately arrange charter flights to repatriate the backlog of Chinese Mainlanders being rejected of entry directly to Wuhan;

4. Dispatch sufficient protective gear to frontline staff immediately;

5. Shorten customs clearance time for Hong Kong residents at major control points, except for the airport

Source: https://telegra.ph/一群入境處職員的公開信-01-28

#OpenLetter #ImmigrationDept #PublicServant #WuhanPnemonia

Responses to Government's Preventive Measures
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16156

#OpenLetter #ProtestersVoice
Rainbow Squad: "Summer is back, and so are we"

Source: Stand News #Jun21

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Rainbow Squad: "Summer is back, and so are we"

This is an open letter from the Rainbow Squad to Hongkongers:

"In the early summer, after a year, the word 'valiant' gradually became a word of the past. Hongkongers have been suffering from unfair treatment, such as police brutality, ever since the beginning of the anti-ELAB protests.

However, we know that whenever oppression is present, there will always be resistance. The 'valiants' were birthed out of this trying and difficult time; a group of Hongkongers, determined to take to the streets.

We used to be labelled as 'violent individuals', 'thugs', etc., and were even cut off and excluded from society, but please remember, "You (the establishment) have taught us that peaceful protests are useless."

HongKongers have experienced "721", "831 ", among the many other horrific events that traumatized us greatly. As word went around that more and more lives were being lost to this movement, we woke up one day and realized that there was no turning back. The grip of the regime has forced us into an awakening, and has made us realize the importance of standing together. "No divisions amongst us, do our utmost best in this movement".

The defense of CUHK and siege of PolyU symbolizes the spirit and the ethos of the protest; the unity between the 'valiants' and peaceful protesters. We are brothers and sisters in arms, where the peaceful protesters can be found alongside the 'valiants', working in one accord.

Unfortunately, our morale has constantly been hit by the usage of improportionate force by the police, and the very knowledge that 'moles' exsits in our groups. Under the pressure of such a corrupted regime, many comrades were arrested or forced into exile.

Discouragement does not mean that we have given up. As long as there is a need, we will always be there. Being 'valient' isn't a role, but rather, it is a state of mind. As long as you have the courage and will to fight against totalitarianism, everyone of us are 'valiants'. Hongkongers, let us fight till our very last breaths. Hong Kong will be liberated, and we will meet each other at the 'bottom of the pot' (the Legco Building Protest Area).

Summer is back, and so are we.

From: Rainbow Squad"

Source: Stand News #Jun21
#HongKongProtests #RainbowSquad

#OpenLetter #Netflix

The Dilemma with The Social Dilemma

To the creators of The Social Dilemma,

It is understandable to gloss over all the nuances when you only have 90 minutes to talk about a topic as daunting as social engineering through social media. To omit some critical ones seems a bit questionable, though. Perhaps there is a clever nod to internet culture by being meta and subtly trolling your own audience. We are no tech experts and have no experience in the large-scale manipulation of human behaviour. However, we do know that while the images and scenes you used in your documentary are true, the tales you spun with them are not.

Continue:
https://telegra.ph/The-Dilemma-with-The-Social-Dilemma-09-15

Written by: Hong Kong Echo

#FakeNews #SmartLampPost #misinformation

#OpenLetter

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau regarding the CCP

//Maybe you believe that criticizing the CCP will be interpreted as racism towards Chinese people. I am part Chinese, and I can tell you this couldn’t be further from the truth.

//Ask yourself: when in the course of human history has appeasement ever stopped the bullying?

//Do you stand for the rights and freedoms enshrined in the charter that your father fought for

//It’s time to stop talking about being a leader, Mr. Trudeau. Be one.

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https://youtu.be/9EWMyGeoVZQ

Source: Youtube, produced by Canadian comrades

#Canada #Trudeau #CCP

#OpenLetter

A Personal Letter to my Cousin the Magistrate

by Chan Kwok-kuen

To my cousin the magistrate:

I have been pondering whether I should write, what to write, when to write and how to publish this letter. In the end, I decided to speak my mind and typed out this letter.

Among our many cousins, some are in the catering industry, some work for the media, and there are professionals such as pharmacists and accountants. Frankly speaking, you, being a magistrate, have a role to play in the judiciary and this makes Uncle and Auntie Seven especially proud in front of the relatives. Nevertheless, “news” about you in social media are widely circulating these days which even made headlines with your photo published on the front page. I believe this is the “talk of the town” for the many relatives and friends in your former residence of Macau.

My cousin the magistrate, my mom is the eldest granddaughter and your mother is the seventh among the siblings. The two are more than ten years apart and thus I am also a fair bit elder than you. Now that I am aged, you are still in your prime. In Chinese kin groups, there are cousins of patrilineal and matrilineal lineages which determine the closeness of relationship. In fact, cousins of our matrilineal lineage do not have frequent and close contacts. Gatherings such as tea and dinner are mostly occasion for greetings, socialisation and festivity. As I recall, the last time we met was more than a year ago when Uncle and Auntie Six came back from Australia. We had a meal at Yixin Restaurant in Wanchai.

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A Personal Letter to my Cousin the Magistrate

My cousin the magistrate, since the onset of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, I have been paying attention to your name and the cases you have tried. Hong Kong’s “rule of law” has been challenged and trashed as the social situation deteriorates and the central government cum party intervenes ruthlessly. And now there are people lamenting that Hong Kong's "rule of law is dead"! Frankly, Hong Kong has lost its unique characteristics and has become one of the mainland cities. In the “reforming” process of mainlandisation, I can hardly imagine how you, as a member of the judiciary, can maintain clearheaded, fair, composed and steadfast as required to defend Hong Kong’s “rule of law”?!

My cousin the magistrate, I have no legal expertise. Hence, with regard to court cases, I form my opinion based on general knowledge and common sense. I read newspaper reports that your verdicts in some cases were “biased and unfair”, including ten months’ imprisonment for a 20-year-old student carrying a spray can and a lighter in his backpack; imprisonment of five-and-a-half months for a real estate agent in possession of 48 six-inch long cable ties; a year’s imprisonment for a 37-year-old lecturer in possession of a homemade crossbow and sharp wooden sticks. Putting aside my pro-democracy stance as much as I can, other than expressing that I sympathise with the guilty protesters. I do understand where they come from and am frustrated at your “harsh sentencing”. I did not accuse you of “passing unfair verdicts” as these cases were substantiated. However, in this case of the 81-year-old man who stabbed and injured a person with an almost foot-long “solid, sharp and heavy duty” chisel, in court he pleaded guilty while “bragging” that “I did this on purpose” … “in the name of heaven”. Expressing no remorse, he even cursed other people and more. To my surprise, you stated that this old man “loves society and committed the crime merely out of differences in political views”. In addition, you granted him bail while waiting to be sentenced. To me, this is “unfathomable”!


My cousin the magistrate, the names of your elder sister and younger brother have the meaning of "shipping and ocean freight”. I believe this is related to Uncle Seven’s work in engine rooms of river vessels when he was young. I know his ambition is to further shipping and freight. However, do you know that Uncle Seven fled to Macau during the Cultural Revolution? He is no stranger to the tyranny of the Communist Party and his personal experience should have been extremely painful. I wonder if he has shared with you his tragic experiences. In the past year or so, I have disconnected from social networks of friends in church, ex-colleagues and friends who have “different values and paths”. On top of that, at dinner or mahjong gatherings with relatives which I could not avoid, we all have an “implicit understanding” to talk about only “healthy eating” and “travel anecdotes”. There was never a word about “current and political affairs” and “rights and wrongs of yellow (pro-democracy) and blue (pro-establishment) camps”, so as not to rock the boat.

My cousin the magistrate, we should understand that the relationship among "cousins" is not our choice. However, whether to maintain the relationship is up to us. In order to avoid embarrassments at meetings, having to socialise reluctantly, and even having to say something not from the heart, I have made a clear choice: I will regretfully decline invitations to any gatherings of my cousins except for celebrations and funerals. My cousin the magistrate, I hope you will understand my decision and I wish Uncle and Auntie Seven good health. You are on your own, good luck!

Cousin Kuen
2020/09/20

Source: https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E7%B5%A6%E8%A3%81%E5%88%A4%E5%AE%98%E8%A1%A8%E5%BC%9F%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%80%E5%B0%81%E7%A7%81%E5%87%BD/

#Save12HKYouths #HongkongersVoice
A Letter from Prison: Imprisoned Pro-democracy Protester Wishes Hongkongers a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

Here is the translation of the letter:

//To Hongkongers:

Never forget:

Please do not be so over-occupied by the pandemic that you forget over 9,000 arrestees who paid the price for Hong Kong's freedom and democracy, nor forget those jailed for the 2016 Lunar New Year protest. They are our youths and elders, who really love Hong Kong so damn much.

Never forget:

7.21, 6.12, 8.31 ... These dates are etched into my heart, never to be forgotten. Have Hongkongers forgotten them, I wonder?

No one is an island. Every youth and every elder who sacrificed their future for Hong Kong is one of us, an inseparable part of us. Hongkongers cannot forget them, or let their memory fade away ...

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Wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Keep the faith and stay safe, everyone!

Ying Sip-Sik
29-9-2020 //

[Editor's note: the two drawings on the right references the Lamma Island Ferry Disaster on Oct 1, 2012, in which a ferry carrying passengers to see the PRC National Day fireworks collided with with another and quickly sank. 39 lives were lost that night, and many Hongkongers have since treated Oct 1 as a day of mourning.

Though investigations pointed out negligence in the construction of the doomed ferry, to this date the police has not yet given any conclusions, leaving families of the deceased without answers for over 8 years.]

Source: Local Press #Oct1

#Heartwarming #Heartbreaking
#YingSipSik #OpenLetter #NeverForget

#OpenLetter

Majority of tomato production around the world uses tomatoes from China

A recent investigation into tomato production chain revealed, with reference to the book <L’Empire de l’or rouge: Enquête mondiale sur la tomate d’industrie> written by Jean-Baptiste Malet, a French reporter, and a documentary <The Empire of Red Gold> from the story of the book, that many famous European tomato sauce brands are made with ingredients from China. Wuhan Pneumonia has engulfed the world. Prior to the pandemic, the effect of “One Belt One Road” had been surfaced with many ingredients and goods productions driven by Red (China), including tomato. Through the “One Belt One Road” exporting unfair and disqualified products, China is trying to control and swallow up human health and labor rights, leading the human kind to the hell.

2011, book author Malet discovered a tomato sauce manufacturer Le Cabanon in Provence, his hometown, was processing tomato paste in buckets marked with “Tomato Paste, by Xinjiang Chalkis Company, made in China”. This shocked Malet much because he had never imagined the tomato sauce made in a small town in south France, which he previously believed being made in France entirely, was manufactured by such semi-products from another corner of the world – China, a regime distancing far from tomato culture. Malet then visited America, France, Ghana and Italy for information re other brands.

Given the above, all ketchup used by McDonald should be from Xinjiang Chalkis Company, surely including the McDonald Hong Kong which is still owned by McDonald US for 20%, with the rest 80% held by CCP State-owned Enterprise.

#China #Tomato #Italy #TomatoProduction #McDonalds #Ketchup

Source: OKKPY Report
HKLIG

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#Totalitarianism
Daughter-in-law of Former CCP's Senior Leader Asks Xi Jiping to Let her Return to the United States

On Christmas eve of 2020, an open letter was sent on Twitter to the Communist Chinese Party (#CCP) leader Xi Jiping, hoping that "the top leader of the country" could "help" the owner of the account and her daughter to leave China, so that she can reunite with her parents in the United States.

The account owner claimed to be the daughter-in-law of Zhou Yonghong, former state councillor and Party Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party who has been in jail for 5 years under accusations of bribery, abuse of power and intentionally disclosing state secrets.

Huang Wan, daughter-in-law of Zhou, said that in December 2013, her whole family was taken away. They then lived at home under surveillance for 10.5 months, and were held in the detention center for more than one year. She was “tortured and abused” by the Public Security system in Hubei, China. She was then sentenced to probation order and spent 3 years under the monitor of the judicial office until June 2019.

After that, she was restricted to leave the country by the Beijing Chaoyang People's Court due to a “civil complaint that has nothing to do with me [her]”. 18 months has already passed, and the case still has not been trialed. Huang suspected that the intention is to keep her in China.

Huang described that the past seven years “felt like hell”. Recently, she was ordered by the Chinese court to evict from her home in ten days.

Despite her US citizenship, she still could not go back to the US because of the Chinesecourt’s travel restriction. She said she felt totally helpless in China.

Source: Stand News #Dec26

#CCPRule #ChineseCourt #Xi #HumanitarianCrisis #Detention
#ZhouYongHong #OpenLetter

#ShameOnYouChina: Burmese Population Condemn China for its Reported Assistance in Nationwide Internet Blockage and Support for Military Coup

On Feb 14, 2021, armoured vehicles were deployed by the Myanmar military in response to the escalation of the demonstrations in the country.

On the morning of Feb 15, the military shut down the country’s internet, which left the national connectivity to only 14% according to the internet observatory #NetBlocks. The internet was resumed at 9am.

Netizens suspected China's intervention by delivering hardwares that helped the internet shut down.

A screenshot showing 6 flights from Kunming to Yangong was posted on social media this morning, with hashtags #ShameOnYouChina and #ChinaHelpMilitaryCoupForOwnBenefit. Multiple universities in Myanmar also issued open letters to Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) leader #XiJiping demanding China to stop recognising the military dictatorship in Myanmar.

Previously, there have been photos circulating on the internet implying China assisted the Myanmar military by providing hardwares to shutdown the internet and build firewalls.

On Feb 10, 2021, the Chinese Enterprises Chamber in Myanmar claimed that the delivery only contained, but protestors were still skeptical. The nationwide internet shutdown on Feb 14 further escalated the protestors’ anti-China stance.

Netizens once again suspected China’s intervention based on the screenshot circulating on social media which showed the arrival of 6 flights from Kunming, China to Yangon. It was reported that the related posts were shared at least 3500 times, and the hashtag #ShameOnYouChina was used more than 1,500 times in just 6 hours after the internet was resumed.

Source: Stand News #Feb15

Read more about the #OpenLetter from university students in Myanmar:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55960284

http://www.mmtimes.com/news/myanmar-student-union-leaders-appeal-china.html

#MyanmarProtest #InternetShutdown

#Perseverence
Arrested Pro-democracy Activist #ChowHangTung opposes Hong Kong Alliance’s disbandment: "I would choose not to lose, not to forget, not to give up, and to persevere until the last moment.”

Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho Chun-yan, chairman and former vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, who are currently detained, issued a joint open letter on September 17, 2021, stating that the best solution for the pro-democracy Alliance is to disband.

[Editor's note: After a special meeting on September 25, 2021, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China passed a motion to dissolve.

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31135]

The Alliance had been the organizer of the annual June 4 Tiananmen Massacre Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong's #VictoriaPark since 1990.

On September 23, 2021, an "Open Letter from Chow Hang-Tung to Hong Kong Alliance (before and after)" was published on Chow's personal Facebook page, stating that she cannot see the act of disbanding any help in continuing the Alliance's philosophy.

"Please oppose the dissolution motion and give the Alliance a chance to continue," Chow expressed despite being arrested and detained.

Chow, a barrister by profession, also pointed out, "The regime has chosen to annihilate us all, so we have to choose whether to persist until the end or to bail out before it’s too late. On this choice, I would choose not to lose, not to forget, not to give up, and to persevere until the last moment.”

Source: Stand News #Sept23
https://thestandnews.page.link/bEjeeCGyLUq7i5Zt8

#TonyeeChow #Disband #HKASPDMC #Alliance #NationalSecurityLaw #Unafraid #OpenLetter #Courage